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JEDIV
Feb 18, 2020Apprentice
Flaky WiFi Operations with BR500 and WAC510s
Back in September 2019 I was having WiFi problems in the house (see quoted extract below). I am having the same type problems again, even though I have replace the old Nighthawk Wireless Router with...
- Mar 11, 2020
I want to update the community on what my network problem seems to have been. After sending my router config file and logs for my access points and router to the guys in Bangalore, we talked on the phone for about 1.5 hours. After looking at the logs, they told me one device was flooding the network with requests and they gave me the MAC address. That MAC address was my desktop PC, a Windows 10 box. So I turned it off and most of the network problems went away. WEMO, Sonos, Google Home, Nest devices are now all up and running again. So now I need to figure out what on my Win10 PC is flooding the network. Possibly the update mechanism. Thanks to the Netgear guys.
RaghuHR
Mar 05, 2020NETGEAR Expert
Hi JEDIV Could you please share the model detaill of your 7-8 WEMO devices? Do you know these devices supports 5GHz band as well? Another thing you can try is by disabling instant wifi and setting Tx power to full will help or not?
Thanks,
Raghu
JEDIV
Mar 11, 2020Apprentice
I want to update the community on what my network problem seems to have been. After sending my router config file and logs for my access points and router to the guys in Bangalore, we talked on the phone for about 1.5 hours. After looking at the logs, they told me one device was flooding the network with requests and they gave me the MAC address. That MAC address was my desktop PC, a Windows 10 box. So I turned it off and most of the network problems went away. WEMO, Sonos, Google Home, Nest devices are now all up and running again. So now I need to figure out what on my Win10 PC is flooding the network. Possibly the update mechanism. Thanks to the Netgear guys.
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